HMS Scourge (1794)
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HMS Scourge was a 4-gun gun-vessel, formerly a Dutch hoy, purchased in April 1794. (Hoys were sloop-rigged). When built she was 66 ft long (20 m), 15 ft wide (4.6 m) and of 67 tons burthen (bm). She had a 30-man crew and carried one 24-pounder gun and three 32-pounder carronades.
This was the third Royal Naval vessel to carry the name Scourge. She was renamed HMS Crash in 1798.
Crash was broken up in 1803.
References
- Britain's Navy webpage
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1861762461.
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